Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-21

  1. Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries www.reuters.com - 682 comments 671 points
  2. De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? - 2025 www.jpmorgan.com - 776 comments 588 points
  3. I’m addicted to being useful www.seangoedecke.com - 271 comments 531 points
  4. The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button paulmakeswebsites.com - 313 comments 494 points
  5. A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight - 2019 longnow.org - 90 comments 425 points
  6. Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction entropicthoughts.com - 323 comments 386 points
  7. California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years www.latimes.com - 169 comments 333 points
  8. Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations hakibenita.com - 47 comments 312 points
  9. Running Claude Code dangerously - safely blog.emilburzo.com - 238 comments 308 points
  10. Meta’s legal team abandoned its ethical duties www.afterbabel.com - 197 comments 259 points
  11. Giving university exams in the age of chatbots ploum.net - 203 comments 234 points
  12. Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace github.com - 77 comments 225 points
  13. The Unix Pipe Card Game punkx.org - 65 comments 200 points
  14. IP Addresses Through 2025 www.potaroo.net - 131 comments 171 points
  15. Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher novalauncher.com - 114 comments 170 points
  16. Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? news.ycombinator.com - 146 comments 155 points
  17. ‘This is sell America’ – US dollar tumbles as globe flees US assets www.cnbc.com - 62 comments 153 points
  18. Anthropic’s original take home assignment open sourced github.com - 52 comments 149 points
  19. Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code’s flickering in terminal github.com - 98 comments 141 points
  20. Show HN: Mastra 1.0, open-source JavaScript agent framework from the Gatsby devs github.com - 44 comments 138 points
  21. ‘The old order is not coming back,’ Carney says in speech at Davos www.cbc.ca - 163 comments 133 points
  22. The world of Japanese snack bars www.bbc.com - 82 comments 124 points
  23. The challenges of soft delete atlas9.dev - 74 comments 122 points
  24. Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide www.iqair.com - 150 comments 117 points
  25. IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT www.johnmaguire.me - 143 comments 107 points
  26. Which AI Lies Best? A game theory classic designed by John Nash so-long-sucker.vercel.app - 46 comments 94 points
  27. The Zen of Reticulum github.com - 61 comments 93 points
  28. Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One press.stripe.com - 17 comments 92 points
  29. Europe could ‘weaponize’ $10T of US assets over Greenland www.bloomberg.com - 135 comments 87 points
  30. Google co-founder reveals that “many” of the new hires do not have a degree www.yahoo.com - 97 comments 87 points